The private sector still has 100,000 fewer workers than before the crisis

The year

has ended with the creation of

, which has made it possible to recover the loss of jobs that occurred during the pandemic and to raise the number of Social Security affiliates to the historical record of

according to the data published this Tuesday by the Ministries of Social Security and Labor.

Although in global terms the year has served to close the employment gap caused by the covid,

-without counting people who are still affected by a Temporary Employment Regulation File (ERTE ) and the self-employed who are in cessation of activity-, and that at the end of 2021 has about

calculations

.

In global terms, Social Security affiliation now has

than it had in

, just before the pandemic broke out.

However, this gain in jobs includes the

and also the

who are still registered but are in

and the

-employed who are on

Of the total number of workers in ERTE, there are 102,548 in

-49,685 with reduced hours and 52,863 without working-, 20,124 in

-for economic, technical, organizational or productive reasons not linked to the pandemic- and 1,415 in ERTE due to the

eruption .

Despite the fact that effective affiliation has not fully recovered in the private sector, the labor market in 2021 has behaved favorably, with a special boost from the sectors that were most damaged by the pandemic in 2020, such as the

(with an increase of 17.7% in employment, 180,619 jobs created) or

+ 16.24%, 37,654 jobs).

Sectors such as

and

, in which there is a significant weight of

, have also pulled the data with the creation of 53,648 and 41,128 jobs respectively (+ 3.16% and + 4.11%) .

94,000 more unemployed than in July 2019

The good performance of employment has allowed the number of

in the offices of the State Public Employment Service (SEPE, the former Inem) to drop, which has registered

782,232 less than it does. one year.

Although the country's total unemployment is lower than that registered before the pandemic broke out (140,142 fewer unemployed than in the first quarter of 2020), it has not managed to repeat the

, when the total number of unemployed arrived to

.

Another 94,472 people would have to come out of unemployment to regain that floor that had not been reached since 2008.

The Ministry of Labor led by

has taken heart from the data and, especially, from the drop in

and

The latter has fallen by 39.57%, bringing the number of people under 25 years old on the SEPE lists to

This figure, however, is much lower than the one recorded in the Labor Force Survey (

) published by the INE on a quarterly basis and according to which there are

This data, compared to the number of active persons, is used to determine that the

in the country

, which places Spain as the second country in Europe with the highest unemployment in this group of age, only behind Greece (which recorded youth unemployment of 36.5% in November according to the OECD).

Regarding regional differences, membership has risen and unemployment has fallen in all autonomous communities, although the

are in a leading position given the hit they suffered in 2020 due to the pandemic.

19.38 million contracts in 2021

Despite the improvement in employment, Spain has not managed to beat the long-awaited record of

Social Security affiliates, although the Ministry led by José Luis Escrivá hopes to achieve it before June.

In the absence of covid-19, Spain could have reached

estimates

, "which confirms that the potential impact of the crisis continues to be significant (-530,000 affiliates)" , points out this study service.

They also point out that, without coronavirus,

"The impact of covid-19 is estimated at 160,000 unemployed," they point out.

Although the purpose is to reach these figures in the first half of the year,

, since it is a month in which membership traditionally falls due to the end of the sales season in commerce and the Christmas period in The tourism.

Furthermore, the Ministry

- despite being a working day - in the data for that month, so on January 3 it will collect the net balance for that day, which always is negative.

In 2021, on January 4, the loss of 117,107 affiliates from New Year's Eve 2020 was recorded and in 2020, 114,738 workers from 2019.

The recovery in employment that occurred last year has not been enough to end

.

had to be signed in the country .

of them (17.27 million) were

, 1.29 million were full -

time permanent contracts and 820,418 part-time permanent contracts.

Productivity collapse

It is striking in the year 2021 that although employment has grown strongly, the rebound in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will be weaker than was initially thought, which has caused a

per hour actually worked.

This is so because Spain has already recovered employment prior to the pandemic, but on the contrary it will not be able to match its level of activity until 2023, according to different international organizations. If more workers achieve a lower level of activity, this means that the

of these workers

something that

.

"It is true that

It is striking and is quite unusual in comparison with neighboring countries since in them employment growth and GDP growth, and therefore the one of the apparent productivity of the work, are being very similar ", explained yesterday

, Secretary of State of Social Security.

In Spain, however, with the data available today, "there is very strong growth in employment, but there is weaker growth in GDP and therefore a

apparent labor productivity. This is

,

in our recent history, and I think that the revisions will tend to reduce this

, "he added.

Different economists try to explain this collapse in productivity by attaching it to the

that has occurred in Spain after the COVID -with a lower weight of the sectors that were more productive- and also to the

derived from the pandemic.

For example, sanitary restrictions imposed on some industrial companies prevent them from maintaining the same production levels as before the pandemic.

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